Mary L. Dyckman Collection

The Dyckman collection consists largely of reports, research files, statements, printed material, photographs, clippings, and a small amount of correspondence related to the work of the Consumers League of New Jersey and only a small amount of biographical material on Dyckman herself. Although there are some records from the 1940s and 1950s, when the League was based in Newark, the bulk of the collection dates from the 1960s-1980s, when the League had relocated to Montclair.

Organized in 6 boxes :

Box #1. Mary Dyckman's biographical data and reminiscences, files on Juvenile Delinquency Commission, Dr. Harrison Stanford Martland, Radium Poisoning (1925-1939), Consumers League of New Jersey (1960-1982) and its history (1900-1969), Workman's Compensation Laws (1963), and correspondence ;

Box #2. Correspondence on CLNJ (1950) and proposals for improvements of labor laws, newspaper clippings, resolutions, papers, speeches, testimony, related to Medicare and Workman's Compensation, files and newspaper clippings on Minimum Wages (1956-) ;

Box #3. Files on Health (1965-66), Food Sanitation (1973-74), Public Health (1977), Meat Inspection (1970), Milk Pricing (1977), Food Stamp Program, Meat-USDA, Cancer Control Bill, Food and Nutrition, Food Advertising, Legislative Accountability Project, President's correspondence ;

Box #4. Files and newspaper clippings on Occupational Health and Safety (Osha), Meat and Poultry, Public Health Committee, Milk, Frozen Desserts, Canned products, Consumer Register Responses ;

Box #5. Files on "For the Consumer" (1968-71), Medicare, Task Force-Final Report (1968), scrapbooks on Asbestos (1979-84) and Toxic Substances (1974-84) ;

Box #6. Files on Workmen's Compensation (1968-81), a binder containing papers related to Workmen's Compensation (1961-81), files on genesis and Darwin, League of Women Voters of the Oranges, audio tape (Reminiscence), and a published article "Radium" by Katherine Schaub.

Mary Dyckman's reminiscences and biographical information (in Box 1) and the transcripts, notes, and an audiocassette tape of an interview with Dyckman by Susanna P. Zwemer (in Boxes 1 and 6) contain accounts of Dyckman's work in Newark. Also in Box 6 are: a ticket for the CLNJ's 50th anniversary idnner at the Essex House; a copy of a clipping describing the CLNJ's 1956 annual dinner, in Newark, at which Dyckman announced her retirement as president; a transcript of Dyckman's testimony, as Chair of the CLNJ Committee on Workmen's Compensation, before the New Jersey Workmen's Compensation Commission, Newark (1973) and a report, "Poverty in the Land of Plenty: The Seasonal Farm Worker in New Jersey," issued by the Governor's Task Force on Migrant Farm Labor (Furman Templeton of Newark was the secretary of the Task Force;1967-1968).